Monday, May 4, 2015

Hundreds of kids stay home to protest Ontario’s new sex-ed curriculum

TORONTO – A parent-led campaign to keep children home from class in protest of Ontario’s new sexual-education curriculum gained early traction on Monday as at least one school reported that nearly all of its students were absent.

Ryan Bird, a spokesman with the Toronto District School Board, reported that at least one of the city’s elementary schools had an absentee rate of more than 90 per cent on the first day of the campaign, which was largely organized through Facebook.

Bird said Thorncliffe Park Public School was reporting that 1,220 of its 1,350 students were not in class, adding that about 100 parents had turned up to stage a protest outside the building. (more...)